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Island Writing, Creole Cultures Island writing, Creole cultures myth of island isolation, foregrounding how accessibility by sea ensures that island spaces have experienced complex patterns of migration, diaspora, 'exisle' and settlement. In fact, the sea is a vital component of island identity and has 25 contributed to the formation of a complex maritime imagination in historical, Island writing, Creole cultures literary and cultural production. Moreover, far from being isolated, most islands are part of archipelagoes and have simultaneous national and regional alliances. ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY As a series of small nations (or colonial territories) connected by the sea, islands are often constituted by the activity of regional bodies of water such as tl1e Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Oceans, allowing for more fluid, transcultural and multilingual relationships than those associated with the terrestrial borders of Is it possible to speak of island literatures in global, comparative terms? Are the nation state. Writing about the Caribbean, Martiniquan writer Edouard geography and colonial history both so influential that we can say that they Glissant explains 'each island embodies openness. The dialectic between inside have produced an identifiable body of postcolonial island literatures? This and outside is reflected in the relationship ofland and sea. It is only those who chapter explores methodologies for comparing island writing by turning to are tied to the European continent who see insularity as confining.'2 Building contemporary literatUre in English from the Caribbean, Indian and Pacific upon Glissant and others, Chris Bongie has argued: archipelagoes, foregrounding the important contributions made by island the island is a figure that can and must be read in more than one way: on the one writers to postcolonial discourse and literature. Although one might arguably hand, as the absolutely particular, a space complete unto itself and thus an ideal define every land mass on the globe as an island, this chapter focuses on the metaphor for a traditionally conceived, unified and unitary, identity; on the literary production of former European colonies in the global south, partic­ other, as a fragment, a part of some greater whole from which it is in exile and ularly tropical islands with plantation, diaspora and creolization histories, as to which it must be related - in an act of (never completed) completion that is well as indigenous literatures in white settler nations. 1 Although the concerns always also, as it were, an ex-isle, a loss of the particular. The island is thus the explored here are not restricted to island contexts, this chapter suggests that site of a double identity - dosed and open.3 the collusion of geography and history has made these particular issues more prevalent in contemporary island writing than in other bodies of postcolonial St Lucian poet Derek Walcott explains that this tension between land and literature. sea is vital to the spatial scale ofthe island imagination. 'There is a strength that Colonial narratives and the tourist industry have long depicted island space is drawn from island peoples in that reality ofscale il1!::which they inhabit. There as remote, isolated and peripheral to modernity. Yet island writers have dem­ is a sense both of infinity and acceptance of the possibility of infinity ... It onstrated the ways in which centuries of transoceanic diaspora and settlement provides a kind of settling of the mind that is equal to the level of the have rendered island spaces as vital and dynamic loci of cultural and material horizon.'4 For island writers, turning to the infinity of the oceanic imaginary exchange. Contrary to the assumption that the privileged sites of history and provides an alternative model of space and time, a 'tidalectic' between past modernity are continental (or generated from the British archipelago), many and present, land and sea, the local and the global. A term coined by scholars have demonstrated that tropical islands and peoples were integral Barbadian poet-historian Kamau Brathwaite, 'tidalectics' draws upon 'the to the development of anthropology, botany, environmentalism, plantation movement of the water backwards and forwards as a kind of cyclic ... capitalism, nuclear weapons and even the English novel. From the early motion, rather than linear'5 and provides a dynamic methodology for British texts of island colonialism, such as William Shakespeare's The Tempest approaching island literatures. In an effort to destabilize colonial myths of (1610-11) and Daniel Defoe's The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of island isolation and linear models of progress, this chapter adopts Robinson Crusoe (1719), the island has provided the material, ideological and Brathwaite's tidalectics as a method for examining the relationship between imaginative space for forging new social relations and literary genres. Island land and sea, diaspora and indigeneity, and· arrival and settlement in island writers have turned to this complex history in order to reshape the colonial literatures. 802 803 ELIZABETH DELOUGHREY Island writing, Creole cultures This chapter is divided into four sections. The first section examines influential colonial literary models of island space such as The Tempest Colonial models and and how these texts set a precedent for discussions Robinson Crusoe While the etymology of the term cisland' simply means land surrounded by about cultural and colonial entanglement in island literatures in English. water, the popular understanding of this space is ofa timeless, tropical, cdesert' Importantly, the patriarchal colonial power relations between Shakespeare's island often associated with abundant flora, fauna and sunny beaches posi­ Prospero and Caliban as well as Defoe's Crusoe and Friday have been reconfig­ tioned outside the ambit of global history. In fact, in contemporary tourist ured by many island writers and interrogated in terms of their literary patrilin­ discourse, the traveller generally leaves the industrialized urban north, a space eage. This section foregrounds the question ofgenealogical and racial origins, an understood to be the locus ofhistory-making, to escape to a tropical island that important concern in island writing, by turning to works by George Lamming is alluring precisely because it is positioned outside the progressive historical (Barbados), Dev Virahsawmy (Mauritius) and Keri Hulme (Aotearoa/New 6 pace of modern time. Yet the discursive construction of the island as an Zealand). The second section turns to Derek Walcott's assertion that Cthe sea especially isolated and remote space is a consequence of European colonialism is history' and foregrounds the transoceanic imaginary in island writers, posi­ and has been naturalized by the popular castaway narrative which upholds an tioning the trope of colonial arrival by sea and its subsequent cross-cultural accidenta1 model of colonial invasion.? Over the centuries of European expan­ entanglements as vital elements of the history of island writing and its post­ sion into the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific archipelagoes, the island became colonial revisions. Writers explored here include Edwidge Danticat (Haiti/ represented - paradoxically - as increasingly distant in time and space from a US), Epeli Hau'ofa (Tonga/Fiji), Witi Ihimaera (Aotearoa/New Zealand) and presumably modern and civilized Western metro pole. Even as the forces of Khal Torabully (Mauritius). Although the maritime imaginary encompasses colonialism, slavery, anthropology, tourism and diaspora altered island com­ diverse experiences, ranging from middle-passage crossings in slave and munities and landscapes, the tropical island was increasingly rendered as indenture ships to indigenous voyaging across the Pacific, the writerly inaccessible, a space only visited through remarkable circumstances such as engagement with the transoceanic provides a vital trope to explore narra­ shipwreck or capture by pirates. Yet this has been challenged by scholars in a tives of cultural and ontological origin. The third section shifts from the variety ofdisciplines. Focusing on what he terms Cgreen imperialism', historian focus on maritime diaspora to narratives of the land, indigeneity and Richard Grove has shown how tropical islands across the globe were vital to national belonging, touching on the works of Sam Selvon (Trinidad), the development of human and botanical transplantation, as well as theories Merle Collins (Grenada) and Patricia Grace (Aotearoa/New Zealand). of evolution and environmental resource conservation. In anthropology, While the transoceanic imaginary provides an important way to think Fernando Ortiz and Sidney Mintz have demoQStrated how African and through histories of diaspora and contemporary- outmigration patterns in European relations in the Caribbean plantation syst~m resulted in the complex the wake of globalization, the focus on local and terrestrial concerns allows social process of transculturation and creolization.. Literary scholar Diana for a closer scrutiny of issues such as indigenous sovereignty and its relation­ Loxley has demonstrated the ways in which the muscular Christianity of ship to the settler state, postcolonial nation building, local resource develop­ nineteenth-century British fiction was constituted through boys' adventure ment, and the relational virtues of small islandness which prioritize local novels about colonized islands across the globe. Writing about the Pacific, communities and genealogies.
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